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Martin Carpenter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I believe I've found a bug relating to cookies and basic authentication
> with wget 1.11.4. I have looked at the bug tracker and couldn't see it
> there, perhaps someone would be so good as to confirm my finding? I'm
> surprised that I'm apparently the first person to hit this.

Not the first, but the second that I know of :)

We're tracking it here: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?26775

Apparently the situation doesn't come up all that very frequently.

> As a side comment, this function could use a little help: it's very long
> (~1000 lines) and would be easier to navigate if the contents were
> factored out. The multiple return points and gotos are interesting
> too ;-)

I quite agree. Both http_loop and gethttp could use some major
refactoring. I intend to make a priority of that after the 1.12 release
of Wget (expected soon).

- --
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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